Having depression or heart disease is bad enough, but having a combination of the two can be significantly more lethal than either one of them on their own, researchers wrote in an article published in the medical journal Heart...
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September 18, 2010
September 7, 2010
Fathers As Well As Mothers Have Higher Depression Risk During First Year Of Child Being Born
Approximately one-fifth of all fathers and over one third of all mothers experience an episode of depression within the first 12 years of their child being born, with the first year having the highest risk, says a British study of 86,957 families published in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, a JAMA/Archives publication...
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Parents at highest risk for depression in the first year after child’s birth
More than one-third of mothers and about one-fifth of fathers in the United Kingdom appear to experience an episode of depression between their child's birth and 12th year of age, with the highest rates in the first year after birth, according to a new article.
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August 19, 2010
Health Visitors Can Prevent Postnatal Depression Says Pioneering New Study
The world's first ever analysis of data from a full scale clinical trial in adults shows that training Health Visitors to assess and psychologically support mothers after childbirth can prevent the development of depression over the following year...
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July 21, 2010
Why is the world vivid in mania, but bleak in depression?
Image by ParanoidMonk via Flickr No, I am not speaking metaphorically. Quite literally,there has been accumulating evidence that sense are sharpened and have great acuity in mania while they are dulled in depression and the effects can be seen within the same individual over time as he/she suffers from manic/depressive episodes. The latest study to More >Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)Related p
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July 9, 2010
Emotional Flatness Can Be Mistaken For Depression In Alzheimer’s Patients
Watching a loved one struggle with Alzheimer's disease can be a painful process, but for the patient, the experience may be a muted one. Alzheimer's patients can appear withdrawn and apathetic, symptoms often attributed to memory problems or difficulty finding the words to communicate...
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July 7, 2010
Racism shapes African-American women’s views on depression care
African-American women's beliefs about depression and depression care are consistently and systematically influenced by racism, according to a new study.
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June 26, 2010
Real Men Kill Themselves Quietly
Oliffe et al. (2010) think that suicidal men either choose the path of connection or the path of escape, and if the latter, then that means those men have been adversely affected by masculine ideals.... Oliffe, J., Ogrodniczuk, J., Bottorff, J., Johnson, J., & Hoyak, K. (2010) "You feel like you can't live anymore": Suicide from the perspectives of men who experience depression. Social Sc
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June 10, 2010
Link between depression, abdominal obesity confirmed by new study
A new study confirms the relationship between depression and abdominal obesity, which has been linked to an increased risk for cancer and cardiovascular disease.
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June 8, 2010
How Depression is Treated: A Real-World Snapshot?
Given a choice between talk therapy and taking an antidepressant, most Americans would choose the pill. And--if given a choice among the various types of antidepressants--most would prefer an SSRI.
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